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I have a requirement to call a remote shell script to apply a db dump. The remote shell script will reside in the /root/admin/bin directory and the database dump will be copied by the...

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In a Shell scriipt with a SQL block I want to issue a query against a local DB and a remote DB on a remote server. The shell script is running locally.
This is how I connect to the local...

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1). Is is possible to use the date builtin and subtract a literal e.g 1 day in bash alongwith the find command from the command line:

e.g

find . -name --date %Y-%m-%d - 1

2). I...

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I am trying to delete file (with a mtime older than 2 days) from the current directory ONLY using:

find . -daystart -maxdepth 1 -mtime 2 -exec rm {} \;

but this doesn't seem to work...

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I am calling a series of shell scripts via CRON so everything is running as root. However, in my error log file I am seeing the following errors. Please can anyone offer any advise as to...

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I have a parent shell script A and a child shell script B.

1). If a command i.e a mysqdump fails in shell script B fails then I trap the error with this code


if [[ $?>0 ]]
...

Hi Corona688,

I have implemented the changes you suggested and I am still getting the same file or directory not found error. I am running the script as CRON (which always runs as root) so you...

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I have modified the tar command as discussed in this thread.
But now I am getting a

tar: : Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors...

Hi Corona688,

Please can you explain your last two sentences at little further.
Do you mean I have to exclude the archive I am building as well ?

My reasons for doing all this are that I am...

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I am trying to execute the following tar command with two --exclude options to suppress extract of the two directories specified.

Do I need to single quote the directory paths ??
Many...

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I am trying to to compare a string variable with a string literal inside a loop but keep getting the

./testifstructure.sh: line 6: [{BOOK1}: command not found
2

Please can anyone...

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I am getting the above error when I execute the following in a shell script called by Cron.

tar -cvf ${WORKING_BACKUP_ROOT}/${TAR_ARCHIVE_FILE} . >/${BACKUP_ROOT}/${ARCHIVE_LOG}
...

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Please could anyone advise what the purpose of the dot syntax in the following command means:
tar -cvf ${WORKING_BACKUP_ROOT}/${TAR_ARCHIVE_FILE} . >/${BACKUP_ROOT}/${ARCHIVE_LOG}

Many...